> I'm starting to panic that I'm running out of time to "get my shit together." There is no time limit on getting your shit together. Seriously. Please don't buy into the valley hype of everybody-is-a-success-in-their-twenties. It's bullshit. > So, I'm interested to see the discussion about what those of us who are life long hackers (with a ton of varied experiences) can do besides keep writing code or moving into pe…
Please don't buy into the valley hype of everybody-is-a-success-in-their-twenties. It's bullshit. VCs and in-crowd founders, not engineers, created that age discrimination culture. It's a way for the people who have made it already to put phony time pressure on the people coming up the ladder. The only way to get a highly talented person to throw 100 hours per week behind someone else's shitty idea is to convince him…
Just not true in my experience. I spend most of my time outside the valley/VC world. Seems to be common among twenty-something dev types everywhere. I've not noticed any change for the worse over the last twenty years (although now I'm in my forties I'm seeing more of the disadvantages of ageism ;-)